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Gateway To Use Corel Over MS For Office Suite

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the first-door-to-your-left dept.

djellusion writes "Dealing yet another blow to Microsoft, Gateway has announced that it will be using Corels Wordperfect office suite instead of Microsoft Office. I can only see this as a good thing because friendly competition creates drive for better(less clippy) products. Can I order my system with no office suite please?"

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  1. Wanna play "Marketing bingo"? by Dog+and+Pony · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "This alliance enables Corel to introduce a whole new group of customers to the unique benefits of our productivity solutions," Steve Houck, Corel's executive vice president of strategic relations, said in a statement.

    As much fun as this is, don't you just hate people that talk like that and on top of that, seems to mean it?